Power-driven apparatus for emptying malt-growing compartments.



D. D. WESCHLBR.

POWER DRIVEN APPARATUS POR BMPTYING MALT GROWING COMPARTMENTS.

APyLIoATIoN FILED 11111329, 1910.

984,249. Patented Feb.14, 1911.

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POWER DRIVEN APPARATUS POR EMPTYING MALT GROWING COMPARTMBNTS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29, 191() Patented Feb. 14. 1911.

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POWER DRIVBN APPARATUS FOB. BMPTYING MALT GROWING OOMPABTMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29, 1910. 984,249.

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Patented Feb. 14, 1911.

D. I). WESGHLER.

POWER DBIVEN APPARATUS FOR BMPTYING MALT GROWING COMPARTMBNTS.

APPLIUATION HLED JUNI: 29, 1910.

984,249. Patented 11111114.1911.

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@man 3027 DANIEL D; WESCHLER, OF MILWAUKEE, NVISCONSIN.

:POWER-DRIVEN APPARATUS FOR EMPTYING MALT-GROWING COMPARTMENTS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 14, 1911.

Application filed June 29, 1910. Serial No. 569,536.

To all .whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL D. lVnsCHLnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at 180 lliirtyourth street, Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Visconsin, have invented a new and uselul lm provement in Power-Driven Apparatus lor Emptying Malt-Growing Compartments, ol which the following is a spccilication.

The object oit my invention is to provide a novel construction of apparatus in the form of a carriage equipped with power rnecha nism for propelling it and adapted to be driven back and forth along a track on the walls rising from a malt-growing lloor, the carriage having adjustably depending trom it a, scraper-device tor expeditiously scrap ing the germinatcd .malt o'ti' the .tloor to transfer it to a kiln 'for the parching treatment.

In lthe accon'ipanying drawings, liigurel shows my improved apparatus by a view in end elevation on a track surmounting the walls forming a malt-growing compartment having a perfo 'ated -tloor and shown by a section on line 1, Fig. 2; Fig. 2 is a plan view oit the saine; Fig. 8 is an enlarged view showing the machine in side elevation with a corner-portion in section, and Figs. 41; and 5 are enlarged sections taken,respectively, on lines 4 and 5, Fig. 2.

The perforated germinating Hoor (5 with the side-walls 7 carrying channel-beams S upon which the tloor is supported through the medium oit longitiulinally extending channcl-beams 9, the structure forming a compartment over a pit 10 t`or the admission of attemperated air to pass through steeped barley (not shown) forming a bed on the floor, need involve no 'features ot novelty. On the top of each wall, extending lengthwise thereof, is a rail 111, shown as an I-beam.

The frame of the carriage, as shown, is a strong rectangular structure comprising two parallel cross-beams 14 and 15, ot' channel form, braced by similar intermediate beams 16 and connecting similar parallel side-beams 17 and 18, with reinforcing strut-beams 19, also of channel form, in the trame. In bearings on corresponding ends of the sidebeams of the frame and in a bearing at 2O on the member 14, is journalcd an axle 21, and a similar axle 22 is journaled in bearings on the opposite ends of the side-members and in a bearing at 22 on the frame-member 15, these axles carrying on their ends flanged wheels .ifl to ride on the track. On a bedplate 2t supported on the frame is mounted an electric motor 25 having reducing-gear connections with the axles for driving the carriage. The motor-shaft carries on one end a pinion 26 meshing with a gear 27 on a shalt 2S journaled near its ends, to extend below 4the motor, in suitable bearings on the ,trainemembers 111- and 15 and carrying on its ends similar miter-pinions 2t) meshing,` respectively, with relatively opposite sides of similar ruiter-gears 10 on the axles 21 and 22 to rotate them correspondingly.

in alining bearii'igs rising Al'rom the tramemembers 17 and 1S and at intervals along the ilrameanember 15 is journalcd a shaft 3. carrying a plurality ot sheaves 32, ol which tive are shown at equal intervals apart. This shaft is geared to another electric motor 33 supported on the bed 24 and having a worm 34@ on the end of its shat't meshing with a worm-wheel 35 on a sha'lt journalcd in bearings on the carriage-trame and carrying a pinion 3G meshing with a gear-wheel 37 on the shaft 31.

A sheet 3S for the driver is provided on the end of a bent beam 23E) extending, near the center ol" the carriage, Ylrom a cross-beam t() supported at its ends on frame-members 1G. At opposite sides of the beam 3f), within :onvenient access itrom the seat, are electric controllers 41:1. and .12 like those in common use :t'or controlling electric motors, each being suitably wired with its respective motor, though no wiring is shown, being too well known in the art to require illustration.

livotally supported on bearings 11:23 provided on the itraine-members 17 and 1S adjacent lo the ends et the axle 2 1 and between bearings 11st depending at unilorm intervals along the trame-member 11 are similar heads 415, of which live are shown, to which are rigidly vfastened at one end anglebars l11', the tree ends el which have fastened to them turn-buckles i15T each having cable t8 connecting it, to one ol the sheaves 32. 'lhe intermediate angle-bars are in pairs, and the parallel menibers ol each pair are spaced apart (Fig. 1). A 'forwardly and downwardly curved scraper-blade 4t), oit a length to reach nearly te the opposite walls 7, has correspondingly-curved reinforcing angle-bars 50 at intervals along its back, at which they are pivotally fastened, as at 5l, to the bars 4G, which, with the blade, from the scraper'. Flanges extend from the concave face of the scraperblade at intervals to register with the heads 45, each of which heads and flanges has pivotally fastendedto it a clip 53 shown as a yoke having a threaded stem, with the stems of corresponding clips screwing into the oppositie ends of a tubular rod 54 and secured by nuts The stems of the members of each connected pair of the clips are oppositely threaded, whereby turning the rod 54 in one direction or the other will extend or shorten the connection for changing, according to requirement,- the angle at which the blade i9 extends relative to the floor G.

With the apparatus mounted on the track, the scraper is adjusted to cause the blade eti) to penetrate to any desired extent into the bed of growing malt, and at such point thereof toward its advance-end as may be determined by conditions, the adjustment being effected by starting' the motor 33 to rotate the shaft 3l for winding or unwinding the cables L8 on the pulleys 32. This adjustment may be repeated from time to time in the progress of the operation of the apparatus. Upon starting the motor 25 to drive the carriage forward, it drags the blade r9 with it to scrape all the malt in its path to the point of delivery, which may be a conveyer leading to the kiln. By operating the motor 25 to reverse the carriage for starting from a point of the malt-bed farther' back and then advancing the carriage, another section of the bed may be scraped away; and so on until the apparatus has been started from the rearmost end of the bed, the operation being repeated as many times as may be required by the depth of the bed of material acted upon, upon lowering the shovel to penetrate it.

The use of my improved apparatus, which is of simple construction and readily adjustable to the different requirements and easily operated, enables the malt in agern'iinating compartment to be handled, for removing it, by one man, expeditiously and uniformly and without danger of damaging it, in which particulars, more especially, it affords great advantages over the usual method of handling malt for the same purpose, requiring arduous labor on the part of a number of men, involving slow and tedious work.

What l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. in apparatus of the character described, comprising a wheeled carriage adapted to run on a track upon the sidewalls of a malt-growing compartment, a motor supported on the carriage-frame geared to the wheels for driving the carriage, a scraper comprising` bars hingedly suspended on said frame and a blade secured to the bars to engage a bed of malt.

on the compartment-floor, said blade having a concave face, a sheave-equipped shaft journaled on the frame, cables` suspended from the sheaves and having turn-buckle connections with the scraper, and a motor on said frame for turning said shaft, for the purpose set forth.

2. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a wheeled carriage adapted to run on a track upon the sidewalls of a malt-growing compartment, means for driving the carriage, a scraper comprising bars hingedly suspended on the carriage-frame and a. blade pivotally supported on the bars to engage a bed of malt on the eompartment-floor, tubular rods with clips having 'threaded stems engaging the opposite ends of said rods and respectively connected pivotally with said frame and said blade, and means on said frame for aising and lowering the scraper relative to said floor, for the purpose set forth.

8. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a wheeled carriage adapted to run on a track upon the sidewalls of a malt-growing compartment, an electric motor on the carriage-frame geared to the wheels for driving the carriage, a scraper comprising a series of bars hingedly suspended on said frame and a blade secured to the bars to engage a bed of malt on the compartment-floor, a shaft ournaled on the frame, sheaves on the shaft, cables connecting the sheaves with the scraper, an electric motor supported on said frame and geared to said shaft for turning it, electric controllers supported on said frame, one for each motor, and a drivei"s seat on the frame adjacent to the controllers, for the purpose set forth.

DNEL D. l/VESCHLER. ln presence of- JOHN lViLsoN, RALri-r Sol-nutren. 

